Several days ago, I posted an entry about a journalist’s amazement that the Alexander Litvinenko story read so much like a spy novel. I don’t read a lot of them, but there seemed to be substantial interest in them amongst the PW readership, so I thought I’d share this article from the WSJ by guest William Stevenson:
Secret Agent
Espionage is a secretive business, but these classics are the best spy stories ever told
Stuff and nonsense! Where’s Le Carre? He hasn’t written anything good in years, but the Smiley series is a work of art.
Are there no books about that master spy, Valerie Plame? I have heard that the destiny of the USA was riding on her shoulders.
ahem–
We’ll have none of that kind of language around here. We have standards, you know.